nitre
See also: nitré
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
nitre (countable and uncountable, plural nitres)
- Britain standard spelling of niter.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Jeremiah 2:22:
- For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
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Anagrams
- -retin, -retin-, Inter, Terni, Tiner, inert, inter, inter-, n-tier, niter, riten., terin, trine
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nitʁ/
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Etymology 1
From Latin nitrum (“niter, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron). Ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”).
Noun
nitre m (uncountable)
- (dated) saltpetre (potassium nitrate)
- Synonym: salpêtre
Related terms
- nitrate
- nitrater
- nitrer
- nitreux
- nitrique
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
nitre
- inflection of nitrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “nitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rient, tenir, terni, Terni